vincentleeuwen

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I am CTO of a startup (and use to be freelance dev). I once did the Introduction into Machine Learning course on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning).

Although I would agree with most opinions here that that does not make me into a data scientist by any meanse, I do really like that I have a good "helicopter view" of ML. This is still super benificial in my role today, as I know which kind of statistical models apply to certain kind of problems. This enables me to find the right people for the right solution with much more ease.

Very cool!

Making it to Mars http://www.spacex.com/mars

I don't think SpaceX ever flew tourists. That would be Virgin Galactic.

TicketSwap is very popular in Amsterdam.

Catawiki certainly is.

Noticed this as well. When I started using DDG it was like stepping 10 years back in time. Lots of interesting niche websites that look straight out of the 00's.

I mostly miss google when searching for physical locations, but the !g comes in handy there.

I've recently switched to DuckDuckGo as default search engine in Chrome, and have quite liked it. I still miss Google sometimes (especially when looking for physical places etc.), but its easy enough so surf to google.com on those occasions.

I would love a native mac client for this.

Found this tutorial yesterday about how to do it with letsencrypt https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secu...

"Pervading the offices in San Francisco and Arizona, meanwhile, was an almost fraternity-like atmosphere, with whiskey shots, kegs, and bottles of champagne."

Sounds like an awesome place to work.

Interesting read. I don't think its too different from your average financial market though. Lesson 101 in finance is that money flows from private to institutional investors. It seems this is the case with DFS too.

I live on the other side of the globe, but found it a very interesting read!

I agree, but you can't blame them for trying to stretch their monopoly imo

I didn't know there were still people heading over to Google+...

Wow. 10 days vs 25 years. This seems like real justice...

You mean, grindr?

Word.

Seems like a valid reason, but this doesn't apply to anybody outside the U.S. though.

I think you should! This is actually quite common (although not by McDonalds) where I live, in Amsterdam:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distributeurs-febo.jp...

I never would have guessed the Imp knows so much about wildlife :)

I couldn't agree more, very cool. This is not just technological innovation, this is potentially Art innovation too.

Greed.

Echo that. I think a "regulated" taxi driver actually killed a tourist a few years ago.

Would be solved if HN adopted the "open in a new tab" user model.

Launch a competitor.

We'll speak to you again once you're beyond chapter 5...

(absolutely loved it as well by the way)